Four suspected rockets hit Kabul

Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime has claimed responsibility for four suspected rockets that hit Kabul overnight as a historic convention continued debating the country's new constitution.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said four explosions, believed to have been caused by rockets, occurred around Kabul after 1830 GMT but caused no casualties.

A Taliban spokesman who identified himself as Abdul Samad claimed responsibility for the attack and warned there would be more to disrupt the historic loya jirga which opened a week ago.

The spokesman also claimed responsibility for a bloody assault Saturday on a border post in the southern town of Spin Boldak in which five Afghan soldiers were killed and three wounded.

Militants from the hardline Taliban, toppled two years ago in a US-led campaign, had also claimed responsibility for three rockets which hit Kabul last week, as the loya jirga got under way, but did not cause any casualties.

The traditional assembly is debating and ratify the draft constitution which will pave the way for presidential elections in June 2004.